Giuseppe Ardigni (1907-2007) painter and art historian, artistic personality of the twentieth century, lived and worked between Lucca, Rome and Florence. His artistic experiences were prominent. Among the most significant the participation, when he was in his early twenties, at the Venice Biennale in 1928, where he exhibited Ritratto. Again in Venice in 1930 with Flora. His participation to the Italian Pavilion of the Universal Exposition dates back to 1937 with La madre.In 1942 he participates at the Venice Biennale again with 6 works. Giuseppe Ardinghi studied in Florence, as pupil of Felice Carena that led him to meet Soffici, Carrà, Morandi, Rosai, Pea. It was the time of Impressionism, an echo that was reaching Italy, and of the Macchiaioli. From his words: "I was a pupil of Felice Carena, a teacher who was well placed in the artistic life of Florence. It was a period of great enthusiasm. I came into contact with the major personalities of Italian painting, Giotto, Masaccio, Piero, but also had the opportunity to admire the collection Sforni, the only one in Italy to possess any Cezanne [... ]" Thus, the experience of Ardinghi, while deepening the plastic values, becomes also sensitive to the values of light and colour. "If Carrà wrote of him in 1931 of a young man with a tendency to prefer feelings, rather than nature, in his paintings, all the following critics have always emphasized the emotional transfiguration of reality, as a characteristic of his paintings, in a fidelity to both form and interpretation." Walter Rinaldi "The portraits executed with intensity and strength, are able to unweave the personality of the characters by only offering the sweet and intense side of their expression and secret intimacy. The characters often emerge from the background, at other times they blend together with a chromatic likeness while being present and visible on the canvas." Alessandro Scapecchi

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